Govt equipping over 100 colleges with cutting-edge chip design tools
government is equipping more than 100 colleges with electronic design automation (EDA) tools from Siemens EDA, Synopsys and Cadence, as part of efforts to prepare talent for the country’s developing semiconductor ecosystem.
The country heads of these chip design software companies told ET that training with these tools ensures that students are industry-ready when they graduate.
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While Siemens has been working with the IT ministry to create an EDA tools grid as a part of design-linked incentive scheme for chip startups, Synopsys has partnered with IIT Bombay, Indian Institute of Science, and Jadavpur University to develop talent for the chip industry and address workforce shortage as a part of Synopsys Academic & Research Alliances (SARA) programme.
Meanwhile, 350 engineering colleges in India have access to Cadence’s suite of EDA technologies.
Ruchir Dixit, country manager, Siemens EDA, told ET that India needs a skilled workforce that can work for the proposed chip units.
The government’s Chips to Startups (C2S) initiative has equipped more than 100 academic institutions
